Honors & Awards

2014 Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal Recipient

William Tishler, FASLA

2014

William Tishler, FASLA, will receive the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal. The award recognizes significant and sustained excellence in landscape architecture education. For over 36 years, Tishler, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been a highly valued instructor and scholar. His finely crafted and reflective lectures helped his students develop a strong appreciation for landscape history and cultural landscapes as well as for the landscape architecture profession. He also documented the work of early Midwestern pioneers in landscape architecture, including Robert Morris Copeland, Horace William Shaler Cleveland, and Jens Jensen.